Emanuele Delucchi - Stravinsky - Piano Music (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

‘Delucchi has done us a great service’, noted Fanfare magazine in January 2022 after the release of his Czerny album (PCL10204) on Piano Classics. This young Italian pianist continues to go from strength to strength and to broaden his already diverse catalogue of recordings for the label – spanning Bach, Godowsky and his own music – with this new album of Stravinsky’s works for the piano.

The music of Stravinsky, like Beethoven, unmistakably bears the imprint of being composed at the piano – think of the pounding chords of The Rite of Spring or for that matter the delicate right-hand traceries in a later ballet such as Orpheus. However, the composer wrote relatively little dedicated to his own instrument. There are concertante works such as the Capriccio, composed as much as anything to give him something to play, to tour with and earn valuable income from in his appearances with orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic. The solo music is more niche, but no less characteristic, every note a Stravinsky note as Elliott Carter remarked.

The Cinq doigts (Five Fingers) of 1921 were composed for a recording – probably the first-ever piece of music specifically written for that purpose – though the recording itself was lost until recently. Much of Stravinsky’s piano style is influenced by the records of ragtime which were brought back for him from New York around that time, including the rippling pianola textures and cross rhythms of the Sonata from three years later.

TRACKLIST

1. Emanuele Delucchi - 4 Etudes, Op. 7 K009: I. Con Moto
2. Emanuele Delucchi - 4 Etudes, Op. 7 K009: II. Allegro Brillante
3. Emanuele Delucchi - 4 Etudes, Op. 7 K009: III. Andantino
4. Emanuele Delucchi - 4 Etudes, Op. 7 K009: IV. Vivo
5. Emanuele Delucchi - Les cinq doigts, K037: I. Andantino
6. Emanuele Delucchi - Les cinq doigts, K037: II. Allegro
7. Emanuele Delucchi - Les cinq doigts, K037: III. Allegretto
8. Emanuele Delucchi - Les cinq doigts, K037: IV. Larghetto
9. Emanuele Delucchi - Les cinq doigts, K037: V. Moderato
10. Emanuele Delucchi - Les cinq doigts, K037: VI. Lento
11. Emanuele Delucchi - Les cinq doigts, K037: VII. Vivo
12. Emanuele Delucchi - Les cinq doigts, K037: VIII. Pesante
13. Emanuele Delucchi - Piano-Rag-Music, K032
14. Emanuele Delucchi - Piano Sonata, K043: I. = 112
15. Emanuele Delucchi - Piano Sonata, K043: II. Adagietto
16. Emanuele Delucchi - Piano Sonata, K043: III. = 112
17. Emanuele Delucchi - Fragment from Symphonies pour instruments à vent, K036
18. Emanuele Delucchi - Serenade in A Major, K044: I. Hymne
19. Emanuele Delucchi - Serenade in A Major, K044: II. Romance
20. Emanuele Delucchi - Serenade in A Major, K044: III. Rondoletto
21. Emanuele Delucchi - Serenade in A Major, K044: IV. Cadenza Finala
22. Emanuele Delucchi - Circus Polka, K064
23. Emanuele Delucchi - Tango, K062



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